 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 736 pages
...amount in lime. Bifland <5f al. v. Skelton ¿f al. 12 ER 436' V. Bills or Notes, forged or altered. 1. In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill drawn payable " to A. or order," the defendant may shew that the person who indorsed to the plaintiff,... | |
 | Wyndham Beawes - Commerce - 1813 - 786 pages
...traders. A case of that kind appears to have been brought to trial upwards of twenty years ago. It was an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, payable to Butler and Co. and their order, and indorsed in that name. The plaintiff was so... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 728 pages
...of the bill. Trapp v. Spearman, London Sittings after MT 40 G. 3. Kenyon, CJ 3 Esp. NPC 57. So where in an action by the indorsee, against the acceptor of a bill, it appeared that, after the bill had been accepted by the defendant, the words " Prescott and Co."... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Foreign exchange rates - 1818 - 892 pages
...result. The words " his own proper hand, being thereunto subscribed," subscribed should be omitted. In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, the declaration stated, that the payee indorsed it, his own proper hand being thereunto subscribed',... | |
 | James Manning - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 640 pages
...the holder of a bill so accepted is therefore the " «ee page 71, A. (a) pi. 2. A. (c) Alteration. In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill, the date of which appears to have been altered by defendant, it lies on the plaintiff to show that... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - Digests, etc - 1822 - 652 pages
...for the plaintiff to prove the handwriting of the acceptor. Dickinson v. Prentice, 4 Esp. C. 32. 84. In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill payable to the drawer's own order, the drawer is admissible to prove usury in the discounting of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 1082 pages
...at the time of the bankruptcy. Thompson anc Others v. Giles and Others, Assignees, M. 4 G. 4. 422 3. In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange ivhereof ES was the payee, the plaintiff proved that a person call ing himself £. S. came... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 1040 pages
...some period of the voyage. Judgment for defendant. UPSTONE and Another against MARCH A NT. DECLARATION by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, alleged to have been drawn on the 31st December, 1822. At the trial before Abbott CJ, at the Middlesex sittings... | |
 | Robert Thomson - Bills of exchange - 1825 - 972 pages
...Eng' Vide Tait's Law of Evidence. 1 Alison v. Gordon, 17th Dec. 1701, Morr. 16705. lish cases. Thus, in an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill granted for the drawer's accommodation,' it was held incompetent to adduce the drawer as a witness,... | |
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And, for the like reason, in an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange... 
